CANACONA
Heavy rains triggered a landslide on the roadside at Dumane-Canacona early Friday morning, blocking traffic along the route.
A huge portion of earth came down, bringing along a Cashew Tree and almost blocking the Agonda-Canacona road near Dumane Bridge.
The landslide was reportedly triggered following heavy rains throughout Thursday.
Motorists had to take the internal road to proceed to Canacona via the highway road through Gulem, while a few of the vehicles going to Agonda had to return and proceed to the highway through Devabhaga road, and join Agonda-Khola road by the Dumane internal road.
Incidentally, due to this landslide, another tree is lying precariously at the site.
The Canacona Fire Services was informed at about 7.30 am and a fire tender rushed to the site and cleared the fallen tree and mud, restoring traffic along the route.
Meanwhile, this is the second landslide along the Agonda-Canacona MDR (state-road) which brought down roadside trees on the road, the first one being at Keri“Agonda where a mini-landslide brought down a tree and blocked the traffic.
Elsewhere, two large Mango and Jackfruit trees came down on the road at Devabhaga, near the temple, completely cutting off the traffic for well over three hours till fire personnel cut and cleared the same on Monday morning.
